Getting our Thinking out there on the E-table

To paraphrase what philosopher Edmund Burke once said, learning without reflection is like eating without digestion. In either case you can feed as much as you want to a person but that person won’t leave nourished; it might be as though they haven’t eaten at all. With reflection, on the other hand, critical faculties become…

Portfolios as a focus for your 2017-18 PLP?

Interested in starting a portfolio or extending your use of this tool? The Portfolio Workshop Series will be a tri-weekly activity for teachers this year.  The “workshops” will be tailored to your level and can be “attended” online or in person.  The series will kick off this October, and will run through until April. How…

The August Round Up: The Networked Educator Part IV

Network flickr photo by gritphilm shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) license Welcome to the penultimate round of our challenge! I’ve long been a big fan of Sylvia Duckworth’s.  If you haven’t lost yourself in her amazing bank of resources, take a deep breath and then: click here.  As our networked-educator challenge comes to month…